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Re: “Magpul's next move”
WOW, I don't think I've ever read such a bigoted, hateful, uninformed piece of writing in my life. I own a couple of those rifles that utilize Magpul products, including the standard 30 round magazines. I also posses a bachelor's degree from CSU, a masters degree from Regis University, all of my own teeth, my own home on my own land (both of which are clean, and not in any state of disrepair), only one cat, one dog, four horses and a pony, and my paid-for '03 truck does have an NRA sticker on it, as will the new one I replace it with later this year. And if you do some research, with actual facts, you would realize that I am more the rule, not the exception, when it comes to gun owners. And as a teacher, father, husband, and tax payer, I'd guess I'm what most would consider a productive member of society. And for some reason, when I grab my AR, and stuff a standard 30 round magazine, I don't start shooting kids, propane tanks, nor do I start butt-stroking three legged puppies. You see, I feel no evil at all, and this object does not take over my brain and make me do evil things. I guess mine is broken.
Bottom line, you are missing the whole point. Your bigoted rant was you own brain rationalizing your fear/hatred of an object. I can see from your passion that you really want to try to stop violence in our cities. I get it and I agree with you. However blaming/banning the object will not prevent crime, never has.
And I will offer that if you would like to find out more about these objects, I would be happy to provide you with information and links to reliable statistics and studies about this topic. Also, I'm in Elbert County, so I'm pretty close to you and I would be happy to take you to a range and let you shoot one of these rifles.
Posted by
Scott Kenna
on 02/27/2013 at 11:20 AM
Re: “Magpul's next move”
Weak column Rich... You resort to the ad hominem bias to spew your self-righteous assumptions. Your attempt to draw a correlation between Magpul's mantra and the Sandy Hook shooting reeks of ignorance. Obviously you are very passionate about this issue. Perhaps you should learn how to express your opinion a way that helps your cause rather than coming off as just another arrogant moron.
Posted by
Dan Richmond
on 02/27/2013 at 11:07 AM
Re: “Black History Month, campus attacks and fracking questions”
Sharlene: I think I'll contact my members of congress and tell them to cut off your welfare, food stamps and all of the other entitlements that are much more abused than any military spending. I believe I will tell them that the "entitlement" is the most pervasive, damaging, habit forming 'drug' known to man. I think I will tell them that the government needs to stop acting like a drug pusher and start doing the job the constitution demands they do.
Why don't you join me, Sharlene?
Posted by
siggie
on 02/27/2013 at 10:19 AM
Re: “Magpul's next move”
Say Jakey boy, I think I know you. Didn't you used to play a banjo on a bridge?
Posted by
longtooth
on 02/27/2013 at 10:14 AM
Re: “Black History Month, campus attacks and fracking questions”
"How sick are these people?" --- good question Rodney and how sick are the people that continue to vote for them? Our country is facing disaster for the first time in its history (Cuban missile crisis notwithstanding). As long as people vote for their self-gratification instead of the health of the country, we will continue down the road to destruction. We may already be at the point of no return and folks continue to glorify the likes of Obama, Reed and Pelosi.
Posted by
siggie
on 02/27/2013 at 10:12 AM
Re: “Magpul's next move”
Richie, you are becoming so pathetic, you are not worth reading. I'm with Jake. I have more education, a better education and I am a hell of a lot more intelligent than you. But I don't blow off my big mouth attempting to demean people whether they have a different opinion or not. I may make fun of their position, or even their beliefs, but I'm not as petty and small minded as you seem to be.
Once upon a time, you used to be funny. Now you are simply sad.
Posted by
siggie
on 02/27/2013 at 10:04 AM
Re: “GOP's disdain for low-wage workers”
Hightower, you are so full of communist crapola. The GOP has no disdain for low wage workers. What they have is a respect for small business. And, by the way, who says the folks making minimum wage are "hard-working"? You? That is a laugh. How would you know what hard-working is? You have never had a job nor worked hard. The folks that are truly hard-working use the minimum wage job as a first step to success. Hard work is rewarded by higher pay. Companies are always on the look-out for hard workers. The majority of minimum wage workers are not worth the existing minimum wage.
Why don't you climb down off your idealistic, pretentious, judgmental, elitist high horse and start your own company and pay people whatever you want? Oh, that's right, you can't. All you can do is point your stinky little finger at those that can and attempt to tell them what to do with their money.
Posted by
siggie
on 02/27/2013 at 9:57 AM
Re: “Magpul's next move”
You are a complete moron! Yeah, Hooray for you. I am one of those "2nd Amendment Crazies" and I can bet that I have more education than you do AND I managed to honorably serve my country in the Armed Forces. Do us all a favor and go back to the People's Republic of California and spew your retarded drivel there!
Posted by
JakeJake
on 02/27/2013 at 9:40 AM
Re: “Celebrity pick for Broncos?”
Lessee, 29 seconds on the clock. Two time outs. Need a field goal to win. 100 million dollar quarterback. Naw, take knee. I'm done with Fox.
Posted by
longtooth
on 02/27/2013 at 9:10 AM
Re: “Tim Leigh and the 52 percenters”
The last election was won by intelligent, thoughtful voters, who cancelled out the deleterious effects of the "uninformed" who were, and still are, being manipulated by FOX "News".
Come on K, you can't seriously believe that?
As an aside, but relative, how do you profess to have such intimate knowledge of what is said on Fox News?
Posted by
siggie
on 02/27/2013 at 6:45 AM
Re: “Tim Leigh and the 52 percenters”
the democrats don't want any such thing because they depend on illegals and the uninformed to keep King and Lady Obama in office
Posted by
TejonTech
on 02/26/2013 at 7:32 PM
Re: “Tim Leigh and the 52 percenters”
The state of Arizona can't enforce a federal law to verify citizenship during trafic stops. How would we ever enforce a voting test?
Posted by
Cheryl R. Burr
on 02/26/2013 at 5:16 PM
Re: “Letters: Colorado Springs dining, Palmer High School, dogs on leashes”
Beyond Vomiting, How to Prevent Rape By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/26/living/color…
Posted by
gurudori
on 02/26/2013 at 4:35 PM
Re: “Tim Leigh and the 52 percenters”
The last election was won by intelligent, thoughtful voters, who cancelled out the deleterious effects of the "uninformed" who were, and still are, being manipulated by FOX "News".
Posted by
Mr. K--
on 02/26/2013 at 4:12 PM
Re: “Tim Leigh and the 52 percenters”
You would watch, and then get the feedback from commentators, flipping around the channels to get the widest takes.
Whatever the guidelines, there ought to be both payment of taxes so that one has an oar in the game (pay to play is how Obama operates anyhow, so he should like this) and some level of understanding of the issues and what is at stake.
Posted by
TejonTech
on 02/26/2013 at 11:50 AM
Re: “Tim Leigh and the 52 percenters”
Why would anyone watch the State of the Union speech when you can just read the transcript online the next morning? Saves a lot of time and you don't have to listen to the annoying ovations.
Posted by
onesopinion
on 02/26/2013 at 10:16 AM
Re: “Tim Leigh and the 52 percenters”
This last election was won by manipulation of the uninformed...I asked my liberal friends if they watched the state of the Union speech, not a one. They also think sequestration will cut the budget rather than just the rate of increase. These people are voting blind. I agree with Tim.
Posted by
TejonTech
on 02/26/2013 at 8:24 AM
Re: “Fracking, ugly cop cars, dogs off-leash, and the gun debate”
@Lotus, Eric Verlo, Karyna Lemus - Colorado Springs Citizens for Community Rights
Terrific letter on the fracking issue. Two thumbs up.
Posted by
karinkdf82
on 02/26/2013 at 5:14 AM
Re: “Magpul's next move”
The guns law everyone is soothing themselves with will not save a single life...nor would they have stopped any of the shootings that have triggered the current hysteria.
But if you write for the Indy, you have to spew out this sort of mindless party drivel...so don't be too hard on Rich, it is his job.